Foo Fighters: Back and Forth

433 00:34:30,402 --> 00:34:32,370 Say something' funny. 434 00:34:32,487 --> 00:34:34,364 I don't know anything funny. 435 00:34:34,489 --> 00:34:37,834 I just came from a different world. I was like, "That guy... 436 00:34:37,951 --> 00:34:41,831 "He is not a guy I'm gonna be in a band with. No way." 437 00:34:41,955 --> 00:34:43,923 It's like, "He's really good." 438 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,252 "OK'" 439 00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:56,224 - I hear you got a new drummer? - Got a new drummer. 440 00:34:56,344 --> 00:34:58,893 - From the Alanis Morissette band? - That's right. 441 00:34:59,014 --> 00:35:02,939 His name's Taylor Hawkins, and... 442 00:35:03,059 --> 00:35:04,652 Is that his last name? 443 00:35:04,770 --> 00:35:06,317 I think it is. 444 00:35:06,438 --> 00:35:08,782 - He's really new! - We just met him. 445 00:35:21,912 --> 00:35:23,585 So now Taylor's in the band, 446 00:35:23,705 --> 00:35:26,049 and he comes in his first day of rehearsals, 447 00:35:26,166 --> 00:35:29,170 and Pat quits the band. 448 00:35:29,294 --> 00:35:31,046 Right then and there. 449 00:35:31,171 --> 00:35:35,927 Pat says, "Can I talk to you guys for a second?" We said, "Yeah, sure." 450 00:35:36,051 --> 00:35:40,272 We walk outside and he goes, "I gotta leave the band." 451 00:35:41,598 --> 00:35:44,397 I'm like, "What the fuck? Why?" 452 00:35:44,518 --> 00:35:48,068 I was just so sick of it. I was just so sick of the whole thing. 453 00:35:48,188 --> 00:35:53,661 I didn't wanna go out on another... you know, bazillion-show tour and... 454 00:35:53,777 --> 00:35:56,030 I just don't wanna do this anymore. 455 00:35:56,154 --> 00:35:58,202 When you join a band the first week, 456 00:35:58,323 --> 00:36:00,200 and one of the members decides... 457 00:36:00,325 --> 00:36:04,956 ever since you've been there, he's gonna quit, you're like, "Obviously, it's me." 458 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,630 I was shocked. I was shocked. 459 00:36:08,750 --> 00:36:11,469 I begged him to stay in the band. 460 00:36:11,586 --> 00:36:15,261 And he said, "No, man. I'm just not into it anymore." 461 00:36:15,382 --> 00:36:18,352 It was right when we were about to go out and start our tour, 462 00:36:18,468 --> 00:36:20,391 like, "Here's these new songs." 463 00:36:20,512 --> 00:36:24,483 Pat quits, and so he's kinda got us in a bad... in a bad spot. 464 00:36:24,599 --> 00:36:28,570 I asked him to stay until we could get someone to replace him. 465 00:36:28,687 --> 00:36:32,032 So we made a deal that I would tour for six weeks, 466 00:36:32,148 --> 00:36:33,900 till the new guy was ready. 467 00:36:34,025 --> 00:36:37,370 But it stretched out to, I think, six months maybe. 468 00:36:56,798 --> 00:36:59,096 So Pat has quit the band, but he's still playing with us. 469 00:36:59,217 --> 00:37:02,596 That gives us some time to integrate Franz Stahl, 470 00:37:02,721 --> 00:37:04,598 who became the second guitar player in the band. 471 00:37:04,723 --> 00:37:08,273 I'd known Dave for years. We grew up in the same city. 472 00:37:08,393 --> 00:37:13,194 He was in my first band, this punk rock band called Scream. 473 00:37:17,736 --> 00:37:20,535 When I left Scream to join Nirvana, 474 00:37:20,655 --> 00:37:25,206 the one relationship that felt the most strained was my relationship with Franz. 475 00:37:25,327 --> 00:37:29,377 I think that he resented me for leaving. 476 00:37:30,081 --> 00:37:33,676 It took a while, and then we reconciled and we became friends again. 477 00:37:33,793 --> 00:37:37,798 That moment where Pat said, "I don't wanna be in the band anymore," 478 00:37:37,923 --> 00:37:40,551 I immediately thought, "I'm gonna call Franz." 479 00:37:41,426 --> 00:37:43,929 I was on tour in Japan 480 00:37:44,054 --> 00:37:47,399 and I get the phone call from Dave 481 00:37:47,515 --> 00:37:52,021 and...he wants to know if I'd like to join the Foo Fighters. 482 00:37:52,145 --> 00:37:55,194 There wasn't any sort of musical audition. I just thought, 483 00:37:55,315 --> 00:37:58,285 "Franz, you wanna be in the Foo Fighters?" He said, "Yes." 484 00:37:58,401 --> 00:38:02,247 And then the next day I was on the roof of Radio City Music Hall. 485 00:38:02,364 --> 00:38:06,244 Please give a warm welcome to Foo Fighters! 486 00:38:12,123 --> 00:38:15,969 We were playing at the MTV Awards, on top of the marquee, 487 00:38:16,086 --> 00:38:17,429 as kind of a warm-up act. 488 00:38:17,545 --> 00:38:22,016 And so I played the first song, and then I quit. 489 00:38:22,133 --> 00:38:24,556 And then Franz came up and he joined. 490 00:38:24,678 --> 00:38:26,806 It happened just so fast. 491 00:38:27,806 --> 00:38:31,686 And I was still jet-lagged from Japan. 492 00:38:31,810 --> 00:38:36,566 Hello! The last song we played was my last song with the ba